Episode 205 - Parasitic Plants

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Common Descent

Science, Education, Earth Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2024

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

Not all plants rely on the sun for their energy. Thousands of species are adapted for stealing nutrients from other plants. This episode, Aly joins us to explore the diversity and evolution of parasitic plants, their varied lifestyles, and their impacts on their hosts. We also examine the surprising nature of the parasitic plant fossil record. In the news: a frozen sabertooth kitten, plesiosaur swimming, wing evolution, and dinosaur body armor. Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:45Main discussion, Part 1: 00:54:20Main discussion, Part 2: 01:33:20Patron question: 02:10:30 Follow Aly online at @PaleoLorax Check out our website for this episode’s blog post and more: http://commondescentpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Got a topic you want to hear about? Submit your episode request here: https://commondescentpodcast.com/request-a-topic/ Lots more ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Common Descent, a podcast about paleontology, evolution,
0:25.3	Earth history, and so on.
0:27.4	This is episode 205, and our topic for this episode is parasitic plants.
0:33.5	Yeah.
0:34.1	As is tradition, episodes that end in a five are plant episodes, and that means that after
0:38.6	the bray of the news and all that stuff, we will be joined by Dr. Ali Baumgartner, our favorite
0:43.8	paleobotanist. We will talk about what parasitic plants are, what adaptations and lifestyles they
0:49.3	have, how diverse they are, what their fossil record looks like, dot, dot, dot. And they're all just all sorts
0:56.2	of cool stuff about their evolutionary history. It's going to be super fun. This topic, as all of our
1:01.4	topics, was requested, this time by Katie One, Devo, Tony, Yankee, Jesse, Kylie, Luke, Teoanosaurus, Emmett, Eschavaria, and Jonathan.
1:14.4	Thanks for the great idea.
1:16.1	Absolutely.
1:16.8	This is a fun, this is a super fun topic.
1:18.4	I'm very excited.
1:20.9	Parasites are super cool in general.
1:22.7	Parasitic plants are super weird.
1:25.1	I'm very excited to learn about them.
1:26.6	So Parasites was episode 102.
1:28.5	Go back and check that out for all of the details on mostly the animal side of the equation.
1:34.7	This is like a nice little follow-up.
1:36.8	Yeah.
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